Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. - David Hare

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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. ― thomas paine

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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.– Barbara McClintock

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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Montesquieu

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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way. -Donald Trump

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers

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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. - David Hare

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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. — Spanish proverb

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