"We come to beginnings only at the end."

“Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.”

“It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.”

“I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.”

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

“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2007). “Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir”, Bloomsbury Academic

“In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”

“Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after I have set you free, you must bow down to it, and submit yourselves to the celestial law. You may go where you please, after two weeks from tomorrow; but, remember, that I will not hear any more of this whining.”

“The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.”

Source : Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.48, Moody Publishers

“I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.”