The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.