Knowledge Wisdom quotes

I try not to be overly analytical.

You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.