Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

The trouble with Lucious, " he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, " is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

Playing in the rain is worth catching cold.

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.