“One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.”

Look, I debate for a living so I don’t need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

We told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow.

I’ve done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I’ve done more for them than you will ever hope to do so you keep your mouth shut.

I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law.

You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.

You have to reject that, and it doesn’t seem–and I’m broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won’t reject it

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She’s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she’s out of her mind, drunk.

You know I’m not going to give you an objective view of them. But they didn’t do that about Donald Trump.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

Hanks is a good man, and he produced the “John Adams” series as well. He does good work. But I’m more worried about a Tom Hanks when we’re at war against radical Islam than I am against a caricature like Sean Penn. He’s a completely marginalized soul.

In the “Personal Story” segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.

I support civil unions, I always have. All right, the gay marriage thing, I don’t feel that strongly about it one way or the other.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

On the policy front, I just believe that Barack Obama was misguided. That he somehow sees this country as being in need of a drastic overhaul.

I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I’m writing the next Killing book now and I have to just make every chapter compelling, so I can’t get too far ahead of it. I just stay in the present and then go over what I have to do.

When you’re dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you’re constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.

I mean, it’s hard to talk about death without realizing that’s our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death.

It’s not that I want to be, but it’s a fascination of the mind and it plays a role in why I want to live my life a certain way.

The more I am aware of my mortality the better person I am and the better I am at choosing a life that is aware of its beauty.

I got a head full of headaches, a heart that’s full of woes. I’m constantly singin’ them down home blues, and not many people knows

He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

I’m constantly trying to find something that’s different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That’s not for me.