Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

God is our great helper, shelter, provider and protector.

Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out.

I only need a mirror to see a sinner.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?