You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

A ship will never sink if God is on it.

Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.