Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Do not look after people with big titles. Look after people with big characters.

Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.