When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

I grew up as a country boy.

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.

You should never be satisfied with a little if you are capable of using and enjoying more.

Of course, any movie that I make, that is released everywhere, gets a lot of exposure.

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.