Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I swim a lot. I swim most days.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.