Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

You must remember that you were made so that the world might be graced with a brilliance that only YOU can display.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good " he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Most modern comedy is crap.

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

Astronauts: space activists.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.