[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul.

Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!

I'm definitely the kind of person to wear underwear all the time.

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

The dark and the light are braided and bound.