Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

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.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.