Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.