I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Disagreement is something normal.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I’m about being the best.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Music is really driving my whole life.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.