"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the pursuit of truth is a lifelong endeavor."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business."

"I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there."