Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do.

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.