Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

There is a crack in everything God has made

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.