If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I'm a nudist at heart.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

You can be childlike without being childish.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.