Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

I let the scripts basically be my Bible.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

I have wished you something None of the others would.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.