“The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him.”

So if I believe in God, and I do, it’s because I think I’m God.

When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Proud to live in a world where someone who looks like me can be president.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

We all have a part to play in the story of change.

Life often can feel like shifting sands, but if we choose to pivot with it, there is a revelation that we are not the same people we used to be.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word ‘experienced’.

I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

I’m living proof being born poor doesn’t mean you can’t find financial success.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

We can all be a source of joy in someone’s life.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.