Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.