Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.