"Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky."

“I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.”

Source : "Dull epitaphs: R.I.P" by Henrietta Clancy, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2007.

“I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.”

“It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”

“God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.”

“When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.”

Source : "Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Talk THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YORK, Jack Nicholson, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2014.

“You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.”

“I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.”

“Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.”