I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

50, 000-63, 000 individuals in the United States and 19, 000-25, 000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.