There was a perception of me and I earned it because I was really intense really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor but it's not easy.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain you try to get the light touches when you play a hero you try to get in some of the warts.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences I thought 'If this guy is still alive I want to meet him.'

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Racism is taught in our society it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.