Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Shame has poor memory.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

He that will learn to pray let him go to sea.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.