"I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't."

“if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.”

“America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago. . . . How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.”

“The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.”

“Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.”

“The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.”

“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

“You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.”

“I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.”