I live in Los Angeles which is the second most polluted city in the world and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

I loved to read and I think any child who loves to read will read anything including the back of the cereal box which I did every morning.

I write in the morning from about eight till noon and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

O sweet delusive Noon Which the morning climbs to find O moment sped too soon And morning left behind.

In my day at 12 years old which was 38 years ago we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours two hours in the morning and two at night.

I open with a clock striking to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time which is four o clock in the morning and saves a description of the rising sun and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

You know the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning which were really in the tank I thought Time to buy.

My principal motivation is supporting my family which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

I loved fantasy but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia ' 'The Wizard Of Oz ' 'The Phantom Tollbooth ' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive but I get it on the Web.

Fashion should be something that in the morning when you open your window you say 'Oh fantastic sun!' Then you take your shower you say 'OK fantastic which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.

These flowers which were splendid and sprightly waking in the dawn of the morning in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity sleeping in the cold night's arms.

We sleep but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.

Research is four things: brains with which to think eyes with which to see machines with which to measure and fourth money.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington D.C. which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes which is nepotism the old-boy network.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you you will be rewarded generously whatever form reward takes which is not necessarily money.