Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

There's no better friend than a sister.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Bloom where you are planted!

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

To love is to will the good of the other.