In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

I tasted life.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.