Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time read more

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you read more

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with read more

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.

A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.