When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.