What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

The advice he reads in Ann Landers – good advice as long as you don’t need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don’t have any use for it.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

Death is the destiny of every man. Why do people fight over power and material wealth.We brought nothing into the world, certainly, we will take nothing out of the world.

Living happily is a matter of not permitting one's challenges to interfere with one's daily blessings.

Obstacles are the stepping stones to success.

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.