It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

In life there is no road to go back

Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.