No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

He’s a guy. We’re easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It’ll take five minutes…three if you wear something low-cut.

The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.