The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.

What’s the point in hating something if you aren’t proactive?

Who is this woman, and what has she done with my ever worrying mother?

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.