By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

David Lynch

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

Sinead O'Connor

Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

John le Carre

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Lucius C. Falkland

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

Aldrich Ames

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Daniel Bell

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Taraji P. Henson

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Thomas Aquinas

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

W. H. Auden