Love by its very nature is extravagant, but we poor human beings, so caught up in fear and worry, limit the very love we were created to bring into the world.

Often someone else's words can provoke us to memories both painful and sweet, and remind us of things we should have learned, but sometimes forget.

Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.