The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was not just about love but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth of loyalty sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

Truthfully I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping ' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person you're playing a version of the truth.

Well there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.