Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.

Dare yourself to make something great out of the things you have always seen as your limitations in life.

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!