[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.
You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.
Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.
It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.
You cannot create what you want by moving away from what you don't want.
If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.