If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

War is a proof that idea has boundary.

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?