"It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom."

“I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.”

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.”

“There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.”

“I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.”

Source : "Lyricist Tim Rice Enjoys Career Revival; David Crosby Writes Book on Music and Charity; Wise Guys of 'Falcone' Come to CBS". "Showbiz Today" with Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2000.

“My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.”

“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”

“It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”