"At the heart of all things is love."

“"You two would make a cute couple," she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.But we would.We would make a cute couple.”

“The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.”

Source : "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

“If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!”

“You live you die and death not ends it.”

“When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.”

“To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.”

“You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.”

“The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.”