The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

Truth is the summit of being

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

I will not marry again. There is no need.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.