Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.

The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.