When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.
To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.