I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.

Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you.

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.