You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.