I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!