...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.