As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Through your Soul’s partnership the answers to all of life’s questions - mysteriously come tumbling forth.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron)