If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

I cry every chance I get.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.