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.

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.

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.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You're worthy.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.