In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.