Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.

For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.

I try to stay in decent shape.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

Think like a customer

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.