When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Truth is a pathless land.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That’s why I’m such a city cat.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

London is a roost for every bird.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

I love driving my car on any highway.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.