Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

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.

The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind

Talk for people and not about them. Unless you have love in your heart, refrain from discussing another person.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.