Surely God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

For a girl the wedding is when you're married. For a guy it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it but the daily war that goes on between us all.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts which was the way we did before 9/11 and then looking at 9/11 and saying 'This is not a criminal act ' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan kill 3 000 Americans blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.