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

Life is best when you are in love.

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.

When they slam a door on your face, it's life, adding another 110 lb plate to your bar and telling you: "Let's see how strong you are".

Do you really want people to like you for something that you’re not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

”In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power.”

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

If it is light, leave it white.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.