One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

I'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.