I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

Think something better so that something better can happen!

The most dangerous job is to be a president - That's nothing more than a fact!

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

I am in the prime of senility.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released!

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.