One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

The great actors always play themselves.

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast.