When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights

The more educated the people, the freer they are.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

Progression: you can start from where you are.

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.

When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.