I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

As time passed away, life moved on, As life moved away I moved on, As I moved away, tenses changed My present became past, Future stood at large. And my present became big empty void.

The reason can make as much damage as passion.

God created you for a special purpose.

Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life.

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.