Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.