The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

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.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

God can do more with a few days of your time if given completely to Him, than He can with a whole life characterized by a half-hearted service.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.