When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.