Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.