Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

The years teach much the days never know.

Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.

It's Better to Have Something Than Nothing..

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man