A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.

Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

I always eat healthy food.

When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.

Karate is a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to things, and there's my kids, and I need my sleep, and then there's being married - gotta check in on that, too.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Always tell your problems to people who don't like you. They're the only ones who want to hear them.

Escape brings not the victory and the crown.

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.