I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

No one told me holy water had chlorine in it.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace.

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.