"We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States."

"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."

"When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace."

"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."