The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

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 lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.