It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

Language lacks the power to describe Faith.

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God's love for us. It is inexhaustible.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.