"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."

"My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family."

"Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion."

"I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up."

"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."

"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."

"He who seeks peace must remember that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"Failure is a word that I simply don't accept."