You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.

I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right

Our political divides have become our personal divides.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.