O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.

A good story never dies.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.

I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

I love to photograph gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

Money means better meals at better places.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I like a quiet life.

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

How wonderful it would be if the love of God was our priority and the love of neighbour flowed from that.