Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.