I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Andrew Gross

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

Lena Dunham

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

Harvey Weinstein

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Christopher Plummer

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Heidi Murkoff

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Henry Ford

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Thomas Merton

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

William Butler Yeats