I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

In our nature however there is a provision alike marvelous and merciful that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Look in a mirror and one thing's sure, what we see is not who we are.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing, it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed to feel with them one cannot understand.

If my life was a movie no one would believe it.

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