I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.