I own and operate a ferocious ego.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

The ego is not master in its own house.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.