You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.

That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.

We all have an infant inside of us, but the infant doesn't have to run the show.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!