You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

The more that things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.

Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.

Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.

How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.

Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.

Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.