The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.

I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.