For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

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.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.