You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

For grief is crowned with consolation.