We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.