Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Spiritual preparedness is achieved with evolved consciousness.

I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

Humbleness is the heart of happiness.

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.