Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.