To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

He who has never hoped can never despair

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.