Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

...There is a duty of solidarity among all us impossible, near-invisible people: a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

We've got to realize there's something bigger than who is in the White House. And that is the spirit of camaraderie and peace that keeps our nation together.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.