My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.

I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt.

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.