There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

Procrastination is the enemy of action!

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

Maybe Putin wanted to fire Medvedev , but how is he supposed to do that after my film?

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.