When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.