All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Happiness is just like a glacier-the visible one eighth tip sitting on seven eighth mass of pain and suffering under the surface

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

I always say 'Don't make plans, make options'.

I wanted to play baseball!

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.