The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.
People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.
If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.
There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.
Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.
The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.
I do not think that technology is our salvation.