I've always enjoyed poor health

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

We will die, but art will remain.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

Have the right people in the right places, working together

I'd say he's done more than that.