You can change things, you can make things better.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

The minute we run away from reality, we become our own fears for a lifetime

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away

I play piano every day.