My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

No one lives long in a war. I don't want to lose you as well.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

He who knows about depth knows about God.

Many confuse understanding with believing.

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.