I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.