I'm not good at compromise.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.