Defeat is a state of mind

Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life.

Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.