"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."

“But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.”

“As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.”

“He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.”

“For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.”

“Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.”

“In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.”

“The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.”

Source : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press