You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.