To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.

Be kind enough to love those who don't deserve your love.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.