This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

What I want is only a wish.

In each painting, I think, it’s as if  God were giving up on finishing the world.

Making each moment count positively is all that life demands from you.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?