Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.