In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.

The real reason we have faces, " Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

The nature of war is constant change.

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!