When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.

I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them.""Them?""People.""They're broken! Flawed!""Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

You are exactly like Jesus when you are wearing his armor.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.