One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

All you need is someone to believe in you to become the new believer of yourself

Stop walking through life with things or people that are capable of slowing you down.

Some people speak from experience while others from experience don't speak.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.