The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.