We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

All of our potentials for good are unlimited.

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

Better to die than live in sleep.

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl!

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.