I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

Dare to seek knowledge.

Fire opens the gates of victory.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.