Critisize - the right way to make enemies. — Критиковать - верный способ нажить врагов.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

A strong desire to learn something is already 50% of success.

No tomorrow. The day of man’s salvation is today.

Fear does not exist anywhere else except in your mind.

A smile is worth nothing, but it is valued dearly...

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

Lipstick can't solve all problems, but it's a pretty great start.

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

When you have to work, work with a smile.

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.

My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

Abundance is not defined by possessions, but it is defined by inner perceptions.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

I love cooking and baking.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Censure yourself, but never another. Do not discuss right or wrong. (You should live and let live, and mind your own business, avoiding a judgmental mindset that likes to categorise people and situations as either good or bad).

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.

Solutions are not the answer.

The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.