I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65! Martin Sheen More Quotes by Martin Sheen More Quotes From Martin Sheen And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. Martin Sheen world-suffering self people Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow. Martin Sheen money tomorrow needs We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care. Martin Sheen great-things care all-things Find something in your life worth fighting for Martin Sheen worth-fighting-for fighting Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting. Martin Sheen environmental political party Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world. Martin Sheen common-humanity emotional pain There is no greater virtue than honesty. Martin Sheen virtue greater honesty I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment. Martin Sheen real helping-others happiness Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic. Martin Sheen fanatics done We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value. Martin Sheen left cost fighting People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain. Martin Sheen perseverance pain people If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God. Martin Sheen finding-yourself growth journey If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is. Martin Sheen faithful issues successful While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive. Martin Sheen activism alive acting Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living. Martin Sheen president white house Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself. Martin Sheen play golf I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen honest government promise This supposed idyllic society we have is the most confused, warped, addicted society in the history of the world. We are addicted to power, we're addicted to our own image of ourselves, to violence, divorce, abortion, and sex. Martin Sheen divorce confused sex The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity. Martin Sheen responsibility humanity world I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader. Martin Sheen catholic leader thinking
