Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

Acting's more of a business for me now.

If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.