Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Trust is won not given.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.

The rich will always betray the poor.

We need American Muslims to be part of our eyes and ears on our front lines.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.