As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I’ve never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don’t do that on stage.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I want my sons to grow up in a world where they’d never think boys are better than girls or that black is better than white.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

For me, there wasn’t a line between working and getting paid or simply playing for fun.

In fact, Nazi war criminals who were charged were able to escape prosecution when they could show that the Americans and the British did the same thing they did.

Jazz music today is from the head and not the heart.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

I need to improve, I want to improve, and to be able to stay in London and play on grass before Wimbledon is a very good opportunity for me.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Miles’ sessions were not typical of anybody else’s sessions. They were totally unique.