If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language

... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

No matter what we have heard or read about a country, it is our own feeling that counts.

I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I have been despised by better men than you.

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.