You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.