History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.

Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.

Smile and be happy because there is no one in this whole world like you. You're lucky because you're alive and breathing. Show gratitude and show it genuinely.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

You can quit anything on a Thursday.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

Ambition aspires to descend

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.