In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

There should not be any sense of hurry or worry about this, just a calm, peaceful sense of reality. Let the Law work though, and express Itself in, the experience.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

I will never be below the title.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

Fair words gladden so many a heart.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.