A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
What is there that money will not do?
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.