"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"It is a quiet truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove."

"It is a subtle truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time."

"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."

"I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree."

"From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next."