We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History more often than not shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed sooner rather than later.

We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

To this day I am the least materialistic person I know because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

I think the fact that I was raised in show business in New York City in the '50s that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring market-friendly innovations.