Happiness lies in making the environment happy.

Happiness without reason is bliss.

Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.

When you say you are losing it, it actually means you are losing faith in yourself.

Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice.

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

Life is a battle of wits between you and the circumstances. Make them, don't let them make you.

Only when you connect with yourself do you interact with the beyond.

Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one.

Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!

If you draw the gun and don't shoot right, you're shot down!

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

Whenever you're in a position to win, you don't want to let it go.