The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

While we are free to choose our actions we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

Mystery is the essence of divinity.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

I'm a Gaga-ite.

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

You're never fully dressed without a good manicure.

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cant find them make them.