Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.

The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.