I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Why hadn't he chosen a different Amish barn to bed down in last nacht? He hated Bethany seeing him like this. Remembering him like this. A homeless wanderer. A stray.

Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

May you have fresh strength in the spring season.

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.