No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Remove yourself, sir!

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.