Sometimes the best choice is to wait.

We need some controversy every now and then. Without it, we would never know where we stand as individuals: with the crowd or by yourself.

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.