"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."

"I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life."

"I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else."

"The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously."

"I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith."

"The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics."

"I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that, I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food, but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet."

"On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us."