You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

I never felt I left the stage.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

…men never forgive like women.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

I want to let my fans know I love them and I'm coming your way and I'm bringing truckloads of funny.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.