Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.