“I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.”

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.

You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?

I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.

I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.