I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

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.

It hurts because He is treating your spiritual disease, just as a good medical practitioner does for his patients.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.