You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.