I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Every child ought to know the light of knowledge.

... forgiveness is a four letter word: Love.

Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart, it's very special and very unique to me.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.