To understand is to perceive patterns.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

All forms of tampering with human beings getting at them shaping them against their will to your own pattern all thought control and conditioning is therefore a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

The goal in life is to discover that you've always been where you were supposed to be.

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

I feel very blessed to have four brothers. My brothers always say, 'Oh, you know, we prepared you for the world of journalism. We prepared you for Arnold. We prepared you for everything.' And in a way they're right. Because you know, they take no prisoners. They were very tough.