It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.

We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.