Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.