"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."

“The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that any man can be substituted for any other so that his differences make no difference. The two are not at all the same. The democratic rule that all men are equal means that men's being different cannot be made a basis for special privilege or for the invidious advantage of one man over another; equality, under the democratic rule, is the freedom and opportunity of each individual to be fully and completely his different self. Democracy means the right to be different.”

“It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10”

“The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.”

“Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.”

“Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace - upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 431, 1895.

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.”