I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.

(I should mention I attended a Christian elementary school where “my dad’s hermeneutic can beat up your dad’s hermeneutic” served as legit schoolyard banter.)

I look at her and I see my future...and it looks glorious.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

Genius is only great patience.

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

I am not so think as you drunk I am.

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.