I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Branding is simply pattern recognition, established across multiple tiers of application and fueled by the energy of money.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.