We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

Gratitude is where self-love begins!

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.