"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."

"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective."

"Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself."

"But I could be wrong."

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

"Leap, and the net will appear."

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

"It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental."

"When things are meant to come together, they come together."

"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make."

"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."

"I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again."

"You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them."

"I'm obsessed with my parents."

"My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards."