I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.