He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

Classics are constantly being re imagined and transformed and the originals are none the worse for it they endure.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

We are all of us stars and we deresrve to twinkle.

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.