Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Kreacher said nothing,” said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, “and there’s its twin, unnatural little beasts they are.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.