The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

My puppies play a daily role in inspiring me too! But most of all, my husband, Conroy Chan, inspires me in life. He's always there to help keep me going.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.