Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.