The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

All art comes from other art and all immigrants come from other places.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

By age seven I used to comb my hair for performances just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.