She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

There's nothing better than that feeling of new chemistry when you're so into someone, and you could care less about what anyone else thinks... and there's butterflies! It's a real feeling that people experience.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemys resistance without fighting.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

Were all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love true love.

First things first

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.

Never let ungrateful remarks prevent you from doing what you feel is right and good. Let God be your judge.

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

I've always wanted to do a period piece.