I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.

That which costs little is less valued.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.