"I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet."

“Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.”

“The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.”

Source : "Immersed in Movies: Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Climbs ‘The Tree of Life’" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2012.

“"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.”

Source : Interview with Ben Fong-Torres, www.rollingstone.com. July 23, 1970.

“You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.”

“All men have their appointed time; that's something no horse can change.”

“Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.”

“High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.”

Source : Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall

“I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.”