I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.