Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.

To experience what isn't, love what is.

Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles...

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

I always played like this, unpredictable.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.