In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that - so, it's interesting.