The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life

In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us... And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

You cannot fail. You can only get results.