Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.