[Caine]"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."[Sam]"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

Scared people did scary things sometimes,

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.