Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

Every director is so different from every other one.

My mind gets into a verbal mode.