Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

There is a bit of a 'once a soap actor always a soap actor' thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If you're good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!

My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard that he spends too much money that he is misunderstood or that he is different none of this is necessarily complimentary but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant or noble or wise or good.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

I'm not brave. Far from it.

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

Wilderness complements and completes civilization. I might say that the existence of wilderness is also a compliment to civilization. Any society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name of civilization.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.