If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

Unless someone has lived your life, no one can live your dream!

Write the story. Don't write sentences.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?