I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

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.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

A picture is a poem without words

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Attack the enemy's strategy.