"The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is."

"There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes."

"When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material."

"My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis."

"The foundation of joy is shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"A mindful spirit recognizes that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."

"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."