"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."

“Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.”

“It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.”

“Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.”

Source : "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

“All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.”

“Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

“When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can say one, two things in the beginning and then the actor has to follow what happens.”

“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”

“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis