To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

History passes the final judgment