Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.

Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other.

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.

But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t.

God don't call the qualified, He qualifies the called

This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.

We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.