Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.

Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

Bollywood is a business more than an art industry. One has to play the game others play to carve your own path.