MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.