My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.