I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Try to knock us down, we'll get up every time. "24/Seven

To be beautiful, be the person who helps others to reveal their own beauty.

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

Progress means nothing to presence.