The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end.

And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

I will make you shorter by the head.

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

"Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none."

Yevtushenko has... an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."

Grig (the navigator): ... so you see, it's just the two of us against the entire space armada. Alex (the gunner): What?!? Grig: I've always wanted to fight a desperate battle against overwhelming odds. Alex: It'll be a slaughter! Grig: That'

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.