Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.