The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself.

I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

Nothing is black or white.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.