I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.