My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Please hold onto your kindess, we share the world with many selfish beings And we need open hearts to create change.

Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

I get a lot of fashion gifts, but rarely do I get something that's just fun.

You need to make relationships to help you.

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.