“Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else.”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.”

“Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.”

“Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do anything else.”

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”

“What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.”

“Some people, when they do someone a favor, are always looking for a chance to call it in. And some aren't, but they're still aware of it--still regard it as a debt. But others don't even do that. They're like a vine that produces grapes without looking for anything in return.”

“Lazy people are always looking for something to do.”

“When you come to the place where you can’t do anything else, you must stand still and believe… When you can’t do anything, let God do it all.”