Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

My family has been through so much and made so many sacrifices for my brothers and sisters.

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.