"It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy."

“For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.”

Source : "Paul: GOP 'has grown stale and moss-covered'" by Emily Schultheis, www.politico.com. March 14, 2013.

“I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.”

“I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.”

“We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.”

“The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.126, Courier Corporation

“I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.”

“Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.”

“The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.”