"Always strive to make the next hour better than this one."

“sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.”

Source : Tammara Webber (2012). “Easy”, p.144, Penguin UK

“The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.”

“As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

“I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.”

“You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.”

“The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.”

Source : St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press

“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”

“The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.”