I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

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.

Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?