Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

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.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.