Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I had so much fun working with Akshay, especially in the action scenes.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

If you are going to steal bells plug your ears.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

I am a fashion person and fashion is not only about clothes its about all kinds of change.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.