Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.'

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.