One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.