Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.