If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.

My first occupation was to map the country.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.