I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.

The events of life are unrepeatable.

Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.