You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Sometimes you meet people who teach you what kind of person you do not want to be in your life.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.