"Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself."

“It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.”

“Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"”

“Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.”

“I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.”

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”

“I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.”

“But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

“From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.”