The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

China is working on a similar system for its future carriers. Donald Trump may want to go back to 1920s-level technology, but the rest of the world isn't.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.