From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.
Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.
I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.
I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.