As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to think about both the sides and design the best life and stand in their true values.

The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

Develop success from failures.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.