We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.