As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

You can work to create a bright future.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.