Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Through strength I found loveIn time I found myself in happiness with you

Children have more need of models than of critics.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.