Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

But when you're concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like.

It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today’s hard times

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Right now you are in a completely different reality than you were 10 seconds ago.

Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.