So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown as an intern but I already had a job.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Even during the worst hardships when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Doctors dressed up in one professional costume or another have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

During the Great Depression when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.