"Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field."

“America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who-with their hands, their intelligence and their heart-built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."”

Source : "Renewing the French-American Alliance". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 7, 2007.

“I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.”

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

“I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others”

“The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He's asking us, 'Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?'”

“You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.”

“But we moderns are impatient and destructive.”

“The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.”

“It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.”