Life is best when you are in love.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

Perfection is not very communicative