The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.