"You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible."

“It’s just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.”

“Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.”

“I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.”

Source : Letter to "The Times", (p. 11), April 26, 1968).

“Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.”

“My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal”

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

“I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.”