Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.

Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

I love doing kids' films.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.