Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.