It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

I can choose to be unstable.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.