Washing one's HANDS of the conflict between the POWERFUL and the POWERLESS MEANS to side with the powerful, not to be NEUTRAL.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, FINANCIAL speculation, REAL estate speculation or BUSINESSES - makes more money for me than making movies.

Why does a woman WORK ten YEARS to CHANGE a MAN's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I was ACTUALLY already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when SEPTEMBER 11 HAPPENED. 'The End Of FAITH' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.

I LOVE doing impersonations of PEOPLE.

Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who LOVE each other, there is SUFFERING. Any time people FACE challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.

You know how much money I could have made PLAYING professional FOOTBALL as a tight end? But I can't JUMP, and I can't run FAST. That was my problem.

I FIND that the very things that I get CRITICIZED for, which is usually being DIFFERENT and just doing my own THING and just being ORIGINAL, is the very thing that's making me successful.

But an INNOVATION, to grow organically from WITHIN, has to be BASED on an intact tradition, so our idea is to BRING TOGETHER musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

People who don't like me TALK about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that INSANE because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't LIMITED to sailors. It's a form of art I find BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE it.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our PEOPLE to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the OLD root of bitterness STILL to REMAIN in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the FUTURE as it has borne fruit in the past?

We LOOK forward to the TIME when the POWER of LOVE will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

In every relationship, the WORK is NEVER just in the positive ACTIONS we do for each other, but in the FOLLOW up.

I LOVE to COMPETE. That's the ESSENCE of who I am.