There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

People fear they won’t get what they want.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Freely we received, freely we give.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Maybe we do go home, finally.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.