His heart beat so rapidly it might burst

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

We have to get serious about living within our means.

One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.

There are no invisible seams.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'