"I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way."

"Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age."

"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight."