I'm not counting any chickens.

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.

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world

The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

The last film is always the most important.

People aren't hearing all the music.

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

I hit a one-yard draw in there