Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.

I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

Man is slow because he hesitates

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

I remember when you could get a good, virgin meal for half the price.

Blessing is special attention God gives us

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.