How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

Human nature was structured through the eons.What our environment of persistent scarcity has done to us during all that time is undeniable

Motivation triggers luck.

The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.