"I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings."

“Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.”

“The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.”

“The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

“Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2010

“I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.”

“Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.”

Source : Speech on Democratic Development, Pluralism and Civil Society delivered at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, www.akdn.org. April 07, 2005.

“The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.”

“Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.”