Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

As the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I'm particularly concerned about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.