"There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got."

“Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.”

“Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.”

Source : "James L. Brooks for “Spanglish”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. December 14, 2004.

“Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.”

“I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.”

“For people to even be interested and to reach out and say "I can't wait for you to come out with something", it's just so inspiring and motivating. It just keeps me going and it reminds me of why I love to make music because there's nothing greater than to use the gifts you have and share it with people who have that same affinity for the art that you give.”

“I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.”

“Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.”

“We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you." "Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky. "Yes," he said.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.941, Penguin