The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Everything has a limit.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.