Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

I would rather lie facedown on the ground and use my body as a bridge, than stand proud and tall and use my body as a wall.

The hated have no reason to love.

Marriage is deep. Don't marry someone shallow, it will cause both of you to drown

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.