Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate wit

Liberty has no crueler enemy than license.

Proverb

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

Joel Silver

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Jean Baudrillard

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Anthony Lewis

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!'

John Lennon

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Honore de Balzac

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

James Mcneill Whistler

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Leon Trotsky

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.

Thornton Wilder

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Larry David

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Thomas Aquinas