"No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog."

“None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics”

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

“L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants),”

“We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.”

Source : Edwin Land's statement to Polaroid Corporation employees (June 25, 1958) as quoted in Victor K. McElheny "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" (p. 189), 1998.

“There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.”

“Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.”

“I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.”

“Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.”