The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

Good service means never having to ask for anything.

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

I'm very interested in 3D.