Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame, ” she said.

Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction

Choose yourself. Define yourself. Love yourself.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

I've never dealt with the Russian government, I've never had a relationship with the Russian government.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.