Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look.

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus.