This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live.

It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Get still, get calm, and let your true self out.

God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.