I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

There is no one who was supposed to come to this world and leave empty.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

You don't need someone to tell you what to do. You know what you need to do. Do it.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.