Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Breaking the personality is like cutting the tree in its trunk, it needs years to be grown as it was‌.

James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.