Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Louis D. Brandeis

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Charlie Kaufman

There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Warren Earl Burger

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

C.S. Lewis

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Tom Lantos

Sports should always be fun.

Charles Mann

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadworth

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

Rainn Wilson

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Mark Twain

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Johann von Goethe