Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Who thinks you're as fantastic as your dog does?

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.