The best opportunities in life are the ones you prepare and position yourself for.

Destroy all the barriers inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. Be nonjudgmental but be loving. Find the perfection in imperfection and be happy.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.