You too could strive, thrive, and become as great or even greater than the people that you admire.

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.