A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

Privacy is not negotiable.

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Enthusiasm is life.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

Leaders are not worried about what they can’t do

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger & expecting bigger.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.