"Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that."

“Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.”

“I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.”

Source : "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", January 17, 2008.

“Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.”

“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.”

Source : Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins

“The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.”

“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country . . . if we don't, someone else will run our country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”

“You photograph with all your ideology.”