I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

People who believe in their own potential, and who are driven by purpose, rarely have time to talk about it.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.