I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Jodi Picoult

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Sam Waterston

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

David R. Ellis

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

Deepak Chopra

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Nikita Khrushchev

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

Maimonides

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Sam Mendes

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

Rachel Roy

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Bo Lozoff

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound