It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior.

Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.