It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

Sustainable Development Requires Human Ingenuity. People Are The Most Important Resource.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy we lose our humanity.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

I don't eat meat. I've been a vegetarian since 1971. I've gradually become increasingly vegan. I am largely vegan, but I'm a flexible vegan. I don't go to the supermarket and buy non-vegan stuff for myself. But when I'm traveling or going to other people's places, I will be quite happy to eat vegetarian rather than vegan.

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

We must accept the end of something in order to begin something new.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.

Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.