Every day that you teach you have two options: be focused, passionate and caring, or to be focused, passionate and caring.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.