Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.