Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.