attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

You can always be a better person, a better version of you, focus on that you do that makes you feel good, cultivateactivities that make you feel in peaceand make them part of your daily life.

A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out but your hair looked too good to stay home?

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of seeing God provide when we've really stretched ourselves in giving.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.