You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Making sensible choices is short-term thinking

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

One writes to find words' meanings.

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.