The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart!

There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it’s so important. I’ve wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Do what, Kim? Lead a normal life? Too late. Way too late.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.