"I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch."

"Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me."

"I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies."

"I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web."

"It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible."

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."

"The paradox of freedom is that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."