What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

You Can Not Run From Destiny

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.