Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.

Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this understanding alone, that the drive comes to work hard at overcoming them.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love

A pier is a disappointed bridge

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.