It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.