A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.