If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

Your influence as a leader will increase when you empower others' strengths, which in return equips them to pursue their callings, not their shortcomings.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.