What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children, ” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler.

The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.

...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.