[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

Yes please” sounds powerful and concise. It’s a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl

The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words.

Once upon a time in a basement library nook, I stumbled upon my first favorite book.Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled, I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.