"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."

“Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.”

Source : Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

“There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.”

“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.”

“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

“I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.”

“Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.”

Source : "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 04, 2008.

“To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.”

Source : "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.