Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Literature is life.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

I've always been positive about superheroes.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'