I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.