You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

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.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Trying to shatter peace, even if it’s not one you agree with, is the work of the mad and the wicked.

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

I take it upon myself to get motivated. I know when I have a bad game. It's something I think about myself when it happens, and I don't need someone to tell me I didn't do this or didn't do that.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.

I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.