We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.