Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Thought is free.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.