"You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck."

“I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.”

Source : Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

“Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.”

“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.”

“I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud, gay man.”

Source : "Orlando Cruz becomes boxing's first openly gay man" by Bob Velin, www.usatoday.com. October 3, 2012.

“Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!”

“Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

“Your self is sacred; be true to it.”

“To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.”