Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.

Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.

There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.

Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

All Prophets were leaders, should all leaders be Prophets

If you don't like something about yourself change it. If you can't change it accept it.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.

If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.