Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols… It's about power and control.

People want to believe.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

I'm married to the future.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Be unapologetically you.....Don't apologize for who you are or what you are. Just be YOU and those that matter will be drawn to you and those that aren't will not matter.

I am never afraid of what I know.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.