"Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family."

“Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”

“Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.”

“In Hollywood a romantic man is one who talks to you after sex.”

“The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.”

Source : David W. Augsburger (1992). “Conflict Mediation Across Cultures: Pathways and Patterns”, p.229, Westminster John Knox Press

“What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you.”

Source : Alexis Soyer (1855). “A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy”, p.155

“Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.”

“There are so many stupid things that steal that purpose from us. The stupid things that you believe a lie that we ‘re not as important as we really are. That our life isn’t as important as it really is. It’s important to the people that you love, it’s important to the people that you will love in the future, it’s important to the world around you and it’s so important that you fulfill the purpose that only you can fulfill the way that you can fulfill that.”

“Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for people to gain freedom, justice, and equality here except by being internationalist.”