It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.