Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film?

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.