A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

We believe world peace is inevitable.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil.

Cupid had struck his heart to the core but had forgotten to put even a mere scratch on his beloved's.

Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.

To me, success is when you can walk into Ralph's and buy anything you want. Ultimate success, however, is when Ralph can walk into you and buy anything he wants.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?