Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

Kindness comes with no price.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.

Just think of it as a picnic with guns and monsters instead of mosquitoes and ants. Do we have fun or what?

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

I want to go out like a Champion, I want to be carried out

The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.

When you save a girl, you save generations

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.