You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

Only when you are in trouble do you realize who your true friends are… And, my dear, you will be surprised!

You're scared of what you can't control

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Nobody ever feels rich.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.