The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness

If you are willing to go out on a limb, the tree of life holds endless possibilities.

Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon

My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

People who keep journals have life twice

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.