I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.

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.

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

Writers are born, not created.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.