The present is the past biting into the future.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Do I detect a renewal of your fighting spirit? I'm so glad. To tell the truth, I've been getting quite bored. Bring it on, Grace--I'm waiting for you.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.

When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.