Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

Only great fools remain ungrateful.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

I truly believe my haters are my motivators.