I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.

One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

We breathe in, we breathe out. We inhale and exhale the same molecules. We are natural recyclers of the same energy, whether or not we realize it.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.