"Until what is significant is created by you, you aren't living your life, you are living some inherited life."

“[About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.”

Source : WCIU Interview, May 04, 2011.

“This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.”

“Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.”

“I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.”

“No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.”

“Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value”

“The repeal of don't ask, don't tell didn't change things for transgender people in the military. What it has done, though, I think, is it has taught our military leaders that they don't need to be afraid of these issues.”

“But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.”