There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.