For something to be forbidden, Leila, someone must make it forbidden. Ask why. Always ask yourself why.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.