Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Why in general, when you're putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you're looking for someone there who is not someone who's going to be heavy-handed.

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

Everyone should work; it's good for the soul.

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.