I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.

There is no danger than doubt.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

Rhythm must have meaning.

I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.