"I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television."

“I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.”

“Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.”

“The only person Ill marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.”

“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.”

Source : "Poland: The Knight Among Nations". Book by Louis E. Van Norman (p. 290), 1907; later quoted in "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief", book by Francis Collins (pp. 230-231), 2006.

“The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.”

“One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.76, Rutgers University Press

“The best way to know any future is to cause one.”