Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

School is a place were you go to eat your lunch

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.