It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Synthetic chocolate sounds wrong.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

Organized perception is what art is all about.