Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

May the Code replicate eternal.

Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.