Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.