Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

By day I am nothing, by night I am I.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.