An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.

Hate is not a good counselor.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

I don't sit down and say, boy, I'm thinking about getting a great deal of money or I'm not going to have any money.