It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

I don’t regret or fear my problems and roadblocks. They have made me brave and given me the opportunity to overcome them.

I never take counsel of my fears.

I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.

Life, nature and God always answer, 'Yes,' to you. What are you asking for?

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair