People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

My real fans know who I truly am and they know what I represent and what I mean.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."