“It’s your life, live it your way.”

I’m Winnie the Pooh – that’s as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It’s about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

I’m very romantic. I’ve emptied flower shops.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That’s all an actor is. He’s like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

One of the things I’ve realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: ‘Look love, I’m a simple man. I love you.

I’m a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

I thought if I could capture some of that expression, that depth of emotion, it will make me interesting to watch as an actor.

What would I have done if I wasn’t an actor? Probably rob banks.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

When children are little, they really need you in one way. When they’re bigger, they need you as a friend.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren’t really any rules.

I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Your kids don’t belong to you – they’re only on loan for you to raise. They have their own lives, their own destinies. So you better get out of the way.

As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way – stay out.