There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

And one more thing.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.