To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

I firmly believe that you are supposed to love everybody. That is God's one boldest commandment.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.