Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young.

The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.

Teachers and leaders and storytellers and healers will grow from the earth like blessed flowers, blossoming outward with Divine guidance, to lead the rest.

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things