You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

There is a God, even in Hollywood.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Every thought of God is prayer.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.