There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

Half-broke hearts just didn't have much pep.

We always been rich, Lydia. We just ain't had much money.

Earth is wonderful stadium to play, till you are on pitch.

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration.