The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.

You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

I'm still missing that little something.

Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.