I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

Divorce is never easy, but it’s even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

I don’t worry about gaining weight. I’m fortunate in that I’ve never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don’t eat enough.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won’t feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.

Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.