What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Finding happiness by delivering it.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Never waste a good crisis.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be.

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.