No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them

Are you still mad at me?""Yes.""I'll go back to sleep, then.""Good.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.