I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

On a daily basis, you’re working with Steve Carell; you’re not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can’t be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott...

Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance?Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then...

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt....

I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable...

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas.

I live in New York and travel all over the world on a regular basis.