I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

You cannot force a dry well to yield water.

When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.

What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God

The person who does not plan his life is basically planning to fail.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.