There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

Characters are born from necessity.

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.