Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn't love, it is poison.

Apply true focus to what you do best.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.

Happy endings are still endings.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.