From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.

Happiness is a sacred bliss.

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?