I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.