I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.