I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined, ” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

The best fighter is never angry.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.