I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

everything happening for a reason like your reading for my words which make you know that

I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.

What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.