I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The world only remembers the winners.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

Why would I want to fit in?

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

I lead verbally, not by example.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.