I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Life is best when you are in love.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

The Law may be hard but it's the law.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

Entrepreneurs don’t do most of the work. Entrepreneurs identify the problems, discover the opportunities and then build processes to allow other people and other things to do the work.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.