Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Whoever dare dream, must do much activity to realize the dream.

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

I have a blessed life. I really do. I have a great family, a great daughter, I love life, I love living, I love people. I love all the blessings that God's given me.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.