A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world.

It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.