Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Days come and go, but the only thing that remains within you are the lessons that you learn by each passing day.

The worst mistake is to live life day by day, life was meant to be lived like there will be no tomorrow.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

Every so often, push your luck.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.

I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it