The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

I think it should be obvious by now that I’m not necessarily interested in reality.

When two evil guys fight in a duel, the worst of both will be the winner.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.