"He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself."

“France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.”

“All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”

“I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.”

Source : "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

“We operate from this position of, "Let's build the skeleton and then insert the filling." We have this ping-pong dynamic with each other where we're able to try different things and bounce different ideas, and it ends up being us building our music together. I've never had a moment where I've been like, "I don't like it." Actually, that's total bullshit. I've had many moments where I'm like, "I don't like it," but it's always evolving.”

“It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.”

“Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.”

“And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 30, 2002.

“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”