No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

When i respect people they think that i'm powerless...

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

I'm still the same. That's why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.