Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.'

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

I'm kind of like a dumb model.