If you put all of your eggs in love’s basket, joy will hatch.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.

We live and breathe words.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I'm amazed to form part of this amazing universe and I'm proud of the hunger that keeps me awake. Because when man is full he falls asleep.

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.