I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

This prime minister should have known better,

I had so many friends over the years - so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, 'When are you coming back to TV?'

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.