You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

You get what you want and you become its slave.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart.

Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't.

As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.