For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

When I don't have anything to say, I don't publish. Rather than posting something that's not very interesting, it's best to wait until you have something that really inspires you and makes you laugh.

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.