Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

Never tell yourself that it's going to be okay. Because more times than you know, it wont be okay. You'll crash and burn and your dreams will turn to ashes.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Obviously I've taken drugs.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.