An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

You are beautiful and you matter.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?