War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat!----You Killed Wesley Payne

Because of fear, people who have civil rights can’t use them

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.