Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

people talking about you doesn't matter when you are in coffin, its only matter to you when you a alive to hear them.

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?