You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

She closed her eyes and let the rain fall on her face, and after another second, I could not have said what were raindrops, and what tears.

Life is full of chances, and today I hope you take each and every one of them.

Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.

bonobos, related to chimpanzees and native to the Congo, have been found to engage in French kissing.

Finish is a laundry powder. I feel guilty when I finish a book.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

On doing what you want to do.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.