Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Service is the highest form of worship.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.