Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

One... moment you think it's the end. But it isn't, it's just the beginning.

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.