Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

This is a tragic world we live in.

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli

If God is with you, it wouldn't matter anymore who is against you.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself?

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.