I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep."Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

He's for us, He loves us, and sometimes, we need to just stop, enjoy His presence and take that in.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

I had a lot of friends that were extremely hedonistic, extremely debauched, swapping partners etc.