Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

I love America. It's such a positive country.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.