Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.

I buy my Avengers tickets. But I think people are going to really get into seeing this other side of the world.

Life becomes easy if you whole heartedly expect it to be easy.

You only grow when you are alone.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous, seeing.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

I try to exercise, I try to think of it less as vanity and more like, how do I stay healthy from the inside out? I try to make my insides happy and healthy and I think that reflects on the outside.