You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.