Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

I'm not really a relationship expert but... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be in baseball and in life.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.

Abstain from every form of evil.

The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

I like to try to hit all of my dives.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

Sadly enough the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained

I do like to belong to a man.