Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

God's truth always agrees with itself.

That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.