When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
