I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.

Being rich isn't much fun when mostly everyone else is begging around you.

Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.