...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.