There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.