I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Faith is taking God seriously.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.

There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.