We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you . . .

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

I am a movement chauvinist.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the film works, they are erased from memory.