"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes."

"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."

"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."

"Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in."

"My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer."

"I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever."

"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."