Literacy is a right, not a privilege.

Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.