The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

The game was being sharply played on both sides, and I watched it with deeper interest than any previous ball match between clubs I had seen.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Maybe it’s just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest...

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

I don’t judge other people’s work and I don’t see enough of it either.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they’re often not thinking. So I’m silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it’s the second train of thought...

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn’t finished yet – and which won’t be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches...

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

I like inventing stories. Very often it’s exciting to write about an imaginary future based on trends, you work out what things could wind up as.

Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born. Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, and died the same day.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are...

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse...

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I shall take particular notice here of the third of November, both because ’tis my own birth day, and also for that I have observed some remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of...