We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

Repeated positive interpretations of one's negative experiences are the greatest medicines for stress and depression.

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.