"Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness."

“Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!”

“Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'”

Source : "Chelsea Clinton reveals politics, kids, are a possibility" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”

“Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.)”

“The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.”

“What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.”

“People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.”

“Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart partner in the room. I have a huge collection of music that I listen to when I'm writing, and I also prepare a lot of music before I start directing. I put it all onto an iPod that I have with me on the set. It's helpful to the actors, because for an emotional scene, I'll play it and say, this is how it feels, to keep us in the zone.”