To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

God always has patience.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I am two with nature.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.