What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

We can go and explore different roads in our future, but the past ones are permanent, just like our greatest memories.

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.