When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.

In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.

We are the choice elected fewLet all the rest be damnedThere is room enough in hell for youWe won’t have heaven crammed!

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.