A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine.

Our eyes met and our souls caught on fire.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.