There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

History is written by the winners.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.

God gives infinite riches.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever. Most people get it.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

People get trapped in the way things should feel and less focused on the way things should function.