My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian. . . The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!
Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.
When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.