Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.