Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

People want to feel hopeful.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

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

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

God does not play dice.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.