Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?

Love is who you are.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.