Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

Part of courage is simple consistency.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

The Bible, profound wisdom .

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.