You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit...

All people who made it at one time thought they could never make it.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.