And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.

I always feel I'm getting near to something that's got more to it than I can get hold of.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.