I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Look poor, think rich.

If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.

Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.

The exception does not prove the rule.