I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

Power wears out those who don't have it

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

The misery of the moment.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.