All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

My name means freedom in Irish.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

After so many deaths I live and write.

When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.