The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.