Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Past glories are poor feeding.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

At this point I'm sure he's more plastic than person, but most people who hate wrinkles become Daleks over time, anyway.

I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me.

My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.

You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks.

I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.

It's important to remember that there are many different types of people, styles of teaching and that we won't agree with all of them.

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.