Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

My words express my feelings but not more than my heart.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.