To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Attack is the secret of defense

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.