"Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it."

“Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.”

Source : "Jonah Hill On Set Interview Get Him To The Greek – Also Talks The Adventurer’s Handbook, His Career, Sequels, And So Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

“Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.”

“Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.”

“Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.”

Source : Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

“I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.”

Source : "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

“There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.”

“Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.”

“People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.”