Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

The universe is infinite, and the experiences and opportunities available to us are likewise.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

You've got to keep moving, keep creating.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Hillary's [Clinton] got some problems with Millennials.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.