The great actors always play themselves.

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.