Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.

I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Its intuition that works. Just intuition.

The human body is not designed to be sedentary.

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

A just system must generate its own support.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves