I mow my own lawn.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

I mow my own lawn.

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.

John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

Hope is a believe in God.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.

I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

Create experiences that leave you in awe for these will be the highlights of your life.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

The joy of dressing is an art.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.

Don’t watch the clock; Do what it does. Keep going.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.