I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

You will achieve full success only if you will obey the Lord and do that which pleases Him

Learn who you are before becoming what others want.

It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.