A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

...There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...

It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.