A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

I will be a good wife, " she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.