Quotes on Life

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.

I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

The mightiest love was granted him _x000D_ Love that does not expect to be loved.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.

The best things in life aren't things.

I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

Love is our response to our highest values.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

It doesn't all have to be about giving money. Sometimes it's a smile that changes the life of one little kid.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.