"I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."

"The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half."

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"