Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Once you label me you negate me.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Give up trying to make me give up

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

I'll always be poor in my mind.