Quotes about Reflection

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

I knew I wanted a 'Girls'-type show about my life, but what's the big thing that happened to me? Oh, I got married when I was young.

I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.