Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

For those who sit on the stairs, a good quote is a strong invitation to stand up and to go up the stairs!

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.

Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make you well? Is that such a hard sale?

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.