I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U. S. congressmen.
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.