My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

I'm not in business to make money.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario, ' and 'Mario Who?'

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world

Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.