"If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault."

“With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

“The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.”

Source : "An interview with John Milius" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

“If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?”

“Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.”

“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”

“Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.”