I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

We can love anyone at a safe distance, but loving people in the thick of their mess takes the supernatural love of Jesus working in us.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

The game taught me the game.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.