The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church.

...you see what you wantand you want what you see, but if I have anything to say about it, that willnever beme.

You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.