The majority of people who come to America come to America for a better life for their family.

In Boston, our strength is really our diversity.

As a mayor, I don't make my decisions based upon whether it is a "Democrat" issue. You make your decisions based upon the people you represent as a city to move our city forward.

That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.

You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.

I'm personally asking each and every single Boston resident to look after their neighbor.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

The wisest have the most authority.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.