It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

One of the major requirement for life's success is discipline.

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.