The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.