The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

B. F. Skinner

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Buckley

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Josef Stalin

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Frank Moore Colby

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.

Charles Sawyer

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

William Osler

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

George Burns

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Jackie Chan