Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

States, as great engines, move slowly.

I believe in giving back.

I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.