A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

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

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

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.