I now know that God is not a divinity to be met on Sundays in church.

God will always watch out for our best, providing us with what we need and a soft landing when we seem to be falling.

Bring on the people you want me to love, the situations you want me to take on, and the lessons you want me to learn.

I will live each minute in gratitude.

We may all be on the same journey but not necessarily on the same road.

Be still and know that I am God!

It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.