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It isn't experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.

Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

You are running too fast, in the false direction.

It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.

I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.