When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

What is the best type of Jihad ? He answered: Speaking truth before a tyrannical ruler.

Muhammad

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Jason Reitman

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Harry Dean Stanton

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

Thomas Fuller

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Juliet Stevenson

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Cecil Parkinson

Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.

J.K. Rowling

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

Kurt Vonnegut

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John Locke