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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take