None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.