Rogues, would you live forever?

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Rogues, would you live forever?

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score.

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character you can use it to play on his weakness.

Be more than you seem to be.

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

I judge people very quickly.

The only time I dont have any problems in this world is when I am already six feet below the ground.

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.

I feel like I'm still at a point where I have a lot to learn from watching myself, so I find that it helps. But it's always weird.

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.

Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you're never apart, you'll never really know how strong your love is.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.