He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Oscar Wilde

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Pierre Berton

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

Toba Beta

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

David Mamet

I wish...I could've lived my life...without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time...we push forward. It's all we can do.

Natsuki Takaya

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

George Woodcock

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

Spike Lee

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

William Blackstone, Commentaries

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

George Orwell

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

Jane Borodale

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld