I don't know what I believe.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.

An intangible substance, make up the world around us. But ironically, must still only foolishly trust, in what they can see or touch.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

The sun's not yellow, its chicken!

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.