Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.

I don't care if I'm funny. I just want people to believe I'm that guy.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.