I love marriage.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.

Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

My family, my parents are hippies.