The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!”"We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.