Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.