"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."

"Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure."

"I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession."

"You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace."

"The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."