The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through, a great peace greets you there

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.