QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The soul is beautiful and blissful.

Love is the essence, fragrance, and beauty of life.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

My feelings remain the same for you, but you chose to walk away...

I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.