I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.

Every action triggers a reaction.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.