"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette."

"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."

"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."

"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."

"If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best."

"Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy."

"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."

"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."