"Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a fundamental integrity that affects both their thoughts and their actions."

“We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”

“At the end of the day it is just a movie and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.”

“One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.”

“Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”

“Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.”

“Being a running back helped me tremendously. It taught me judgement in the defense and how to judge the football.”

“I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.”

Source : "Just fired, Peter Arnett hired by British paper". Interview with Piers Morgan, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2003.

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”

Source : Remarks at town hall meeting, Kuwait, 8 Dec. 2004