I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

There is a huge difference between danger and fear.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.