The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface and discover her heart.

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.