Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.

Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them.

No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.

The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.

Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

There is no gains without pain.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

Bless you, daugher of man.

Believe the best of everybody.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.