I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.