Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.

A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.