The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin

Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.