Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.

I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.