I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Night was running ahead of itself.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.

Circumstances, events or situations have no power except that which you give them.

How can we live our lives without God?

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.

The shenanigans of the kids, on and off the screen, they all fell in love with each other.

In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.

I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.