An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

What's so noble about being dead?

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.