I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.

And I don't think I want to meet this super-reaper." Nash stuffed his hands in his front pockets. "The garden variety's weird enough.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.