I no longer run barefoot.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

I no longer run barefoot.

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

Thirty the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.