“There is no happiness. There is only concentration.”

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”

They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.

I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.

It’s not personal, it’s strictly business

Without coffee something’s missing

It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.

I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

He who obeys the command ‘Rejoice in the Lord’ has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

The good thing about me is I just don’t shop high-end.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

All the live murmur of a summer’s day.