What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

Science is just magic with better PR.

Love is the best medicine.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

Look, I am very competitive.