Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, to the extent that the progress of historical studies is often a danger to nationality.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.