What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

Time if abused is always sure to have the last laugh.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible

My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.