The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.