To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

The young people are hungry for God.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

[Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.