The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room

For me to live is Christ and to die is gainPhillippians 1:21

A good student learns from his teacher. A great student learns to teach himself.

There is a good guilt and a bad guilt... the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

Outlook determines outcome.