Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Kenny Chesney

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Sydney Pollack

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Paul Kane

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Paulo Coelho

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

William Shakespeare

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Alfred Marshall

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Maggie Gallagher

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E. Gladstone

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

Nick Rahall