Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

Any conscious or unconscious thought, love, or actions will bring more energy in your life.

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

No good end exists for any dictator!

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.