In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul.

Would it surprise you to hear that man's unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.

Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.