"The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence."

“Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.”

Source : "The Marriage of Love & Power". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.”

“I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.”

“I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.”

Source : Usenet article, 2003.

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”

“I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.”

Source : "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

“I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.”

Source : Song: The Rose