My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.

Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.