You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

I have never written anything sexually explicit.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

The biggest challenge in business isn’t your competition, it's what goes on inside your own head.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.