Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

To each his own magic.

But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.