United a herd is an army

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

Dare to be naive.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.