We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

The future though imminent is obscure.

It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.