No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

It is a strange thing to realize... but our failures so often place us where we need to be.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.