Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Clarity leads to attention and attention leads to results.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.