impossible situations can arise on other planets too. We don’t need to think that we’re the only ones who struggle and fight.

Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.

Life is as large as you explore it.

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct not by their professions.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.