"You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means."

“My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.”

“Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.”

Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin

“You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.”

“Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.”

“I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.”

“I've been asked this question about playing the baddie so many times. When I read the script, I said, 'Of course this guy has done terrible things, but he's a human being first,' and that's what I'm attracted to in a part like this. It doesn't make any sense if all of a sudden the guy is horrendously bad and that's it. You can't relate to him or understand him.”

“You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.”

“You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!”