I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

On working with his father in Pursuit of Happyness: It was fun having that experience with my dad 'cause he really taught me a lot of the stuff that he knows. Almost everything he knows about acting in that one movie.

Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end.

When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.

My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.