What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!