Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

A message from God... If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself Exactly as I see You... And I See You as Perfection and of Immeasurable Importance.

You have to make your own choices in life.

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Only humans can voice the adoration and plea that goes up silently from the rest of creation, and only humans can withhold their voices from it.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand