Overall state control with foreign participation is as good as you are going to get in South America at this moment.

The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.