I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.