To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.

Listen, be respectful of others' opinions, be willing to change your mind - and then ultimately you have to make the decision. Decisiveness is very important.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

You can only inspire others when your heart is ready to sing the song of love.

I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.