Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don’t last!

It is not what we feel that gets us in to trouble. It is how we express how we feel that causes conflict.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.