The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

God didn't make junk.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry.

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.