I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.

If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do.

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.