“But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.”

“You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.”

“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“But that's what I'm saying to you… That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.”

“No, you don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen, and I'm going to tell them the facts.”

“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“After all, who knows what the distant past was like? About Kepler and Copernicus, people often say, You captured the period so well! I always want to ask, How do you know? You weren't there either.”

“The toughest problem a draft resister faces is not how to immigrate but whether he really wants to. And only you can answer that. For yourself. That's what Nuremberg was all about.”