People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

I have the space and liberty to create.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

I like being a writer.