You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s ”Poker Face”]

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what differentiates a good director.

People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

Each man the architect of his own fate.