My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.
You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
