I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.