Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

There is a very small chance that you might be really brilliant and really talented.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.