Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

Peace is power.

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.

When you've attained to your hidden within your apparent vice versa, know that you have reached Eternal Time, and Divine Presence. The Communion is in the Breath.

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.