Playing the victim is like surrendering to self-imprisonment.

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.

Henry, that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .