I see that you, like many before you. The happiest person on earth would look in the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

If you truly want to speak the language that most people would understand, then you must speak boldly with your actions.

They’ve loved you your whole life and you’ve been gone for days. I’ve just loved you for the better part of a week and losing you just ‘bout drove me crazy.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

I listen to [customers] and we make adjustments because we pretty much average a collection every six weeks. We're constantly taking everything in and taking notes.

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.