Curiosity

The most sophisticated and intelligent people I know are the ones willing to challenge their thinking and admit there's more to learn.

Embrace your inexperience and keep taking leaps forward.

When falling, the tendency is to tighten up, to brace for impact. But in truth, the safest thing one can do is remain calm — even curious about the shifting world around you.

By reading, you can have lunch with Ben Franklin, or every great personality in the history of the world. You can in fact have a very long lunch with them.

Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.

People often ask me how I got into acting. The truth is I didn't get into acting. I got into everything.

We are the only species that can learn to think like another of our own species; the only one that records and remembers its history; the only one that tries to decipher the laws of the universe.

When you stop looking — or when you see only what you want — as a human being you become a stenographer.

Today is not the day you switch from receive to transmit. Once you do that, your education is over. And your education should never be over.

If you are lucky, you will never lose the sensation of terror that precedes discovery, nor the delight that follows.

I learned that unlikely events — the things we say could never happen to us — happen all the time, because there are so many possible unlikely events that a few of them will happen.

An answer can only be as good as the question asked.