The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

No one will take better care of your dream than you.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.

You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.