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“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”
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“Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.”
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“Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.”
Source : "The Return of Big Government". www.weeklystandard.com. March 9, 2009. 
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“Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company
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“The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.”
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“I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13”
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“Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.”
Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.227, Macmillan
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“There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
