Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

I don't have dating tips.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

You have to be who you truly are, and love who you are, to be beautiful.

Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.