A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.