The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Mind shouts, while heart whispers!

Love is growing up.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.