I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

A nation has character only when it is free.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.