As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.

Love is a lens of an observer. Love is an attitude with action.

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.