the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

I'm at that stage of life where I don't even care whether people like me anymore. If you like me, Cool. If you don't, Okay!

An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

I'm always aware of mortality.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

We don’t want to become old, rich and useless