The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

Words and statements work both ways - to build or destroy.

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

The trees reach up above me toward the sky, stretching out their great limbs in an intricate pattern that reminds me of the pattern of light... the pattern shifting back and forth as I climb.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

All children have gifts, some open them at different times.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.