Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.