I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

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.

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

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

God is not interested in helping you finding out why you are in a mess, He is interested in fixing it.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.