Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.