Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

I need you forever, for you are my teddy.

To succeed in life you must believe and take first step in working towards realizing your goals.

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

We don't want to tell our dreams. We want to show them

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.