What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?