The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Long live the dead because we live in them.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

To be a hero holds honor but to be a legend is to live forever.

I only make movies I want to go see.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?