Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

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.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Everything truly important is washable.

I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?