The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.

Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.