When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Love manifests itself in loving attitudes and acts

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

Just witness yourself with your human part and hold yourself with love, if you can, or at least acceptance.

Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.