Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.

And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

If you are with me long, I will begin to spell Master with two M’s.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.