In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
The most important thing for me is health - you wake up in the morning, you can breathe, and you can walk.
I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
