But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.