In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

My feet are firmly planted in my political ideology. To me, it's being authentic in every area, and that includes politics.