If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

You fade slowly till no one sees you disappear.

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.