I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.