No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

A man who truly loves his wife is loved by the entire world

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

I kinda write in sequences that I live through.