There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.

The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.