Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated.

I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?