The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations.

Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.

When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my children, I am not sure if what I am giving them is safe. Politics and pesticides are destroying our food culture.

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

My dad - I mean, we've had our ups and downs, you know, just like any father and son probably has. But, you know, we get along really good, honestly.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

I made my money by selling too soon.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don't want to know - because why ruin a story?

Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.

If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.

Customer loyalty comes from consistent experience. They learn to count on you.

I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.'

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.

Change takes courage.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.