People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

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.

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.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.