Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.

I'm a big old romantic.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.

A baby’s laughter is the sweetest music that touches every heart.

I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.