Binary thinking is human nature: Light/Dark, Beautiful/Ugly, Full/Empty, Male/Female.But NONE of those are binary—they’re all gradients.

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it. You must find out your gifts and talents.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.