A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

I bleed myself to be your drink:Is not the blood of poets—ink?

I love the smell of rain and growing things.

Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she was alone and unloved.

You’re not just different, you’re exceptional. And I think it’s time that I make you feel that way, too.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

All great men are partially inspired.

You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.