To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.