Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

We're all a part of this world, and it's up to us to make this one chance at living - living worth while. But the only way to do that is by doing it together.

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor. (upon receiving the OBE)

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

I try to stay in the positive. In the now.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.