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

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.

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.

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.

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

My appearance is talking and I like what it is saying.

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.