But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

I die a little, In the echo of your silence.

The devil will not be fine about your blessing and will make sure that your blessings become your headache

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.