When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Life is reflections of our thoughts.

Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.

It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but wecan’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target?

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.