There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Music heals the soul, we kneel to the fallen.

Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!

To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?