The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

The sun pours out like wine.

Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

If people screw me, I screw back in spades.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.