The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

Criss Jami

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Charles Dickens

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Hesiod

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

James Russell Lowell

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

Michael Reagan

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.

Woodrow Wilson

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Brad Pitt