the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence.

I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.

Be yourself! Now that would be different!

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)