"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

“Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.”

“Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.”

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist.”

“I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.”

Source : "The Neighbors' Dan Fogelman on turning a critical flop into 'an unstoppable beast'". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 02, 2013.

“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”

“Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.”

“All my work comes out of my life.”

“You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.”

Source : Mike Murdock (1994). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, Honor Books