In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.

My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.

Gwyneth Paltrow -- she always looks like she's about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get it over with. But I loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums.

When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver

I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness.

Americans were folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything.

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.