The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

Infuse your life with action.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Certainty ends inquiry.

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.