To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

Would you die for her?I do. Every Day.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.