You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

You have found love in your heart - and out of small changes come great things.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.