Self-sacrifice which denies COMMON SENSE is not a VIRTUE. It's a SPIRITUAL dissipation.

I was BROUGHT up in an ERA when THRIFT was STILL considered a virtue.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an OLD book can yield sustenance DENIED by a database SEARCH. Patience is a VIRTUE, gluttony a sin.

To REALIZE that you do not UNDERSTAND is a VIRTUE; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by VIRTUE of age, OFTEN PAINFULLY limited.

Our failings SOMETIMES bind US to one another as CLOSELY as could VIRTUE itself.

I am a film director, and I WORK with a visual language, with a visual MEDIUM. And I TRY to make virtue of the USE of this visual medium. And I try to make SURE what I do speaks the language of cinema.

In Hollywood a GIRL's VIRTUE is much less IMPORTANT than her hairdo.

I do BELIEVE in CHRIST, but I would not HOLD myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - FAR from it, REALLY.