Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Patients have the right to help themselves.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part we function as nine small independent law firms.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest “ then we can all die laughing.

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.

If you don't know how to show yourself kindness when you're a size 18, you won't know how to do it wearing a size 4.

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

If peace is really what you want then you will choose peace.

Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things.

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Meditation is the womb of our actions; action the midwife of our meditations.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.

The quality not the longevity of ones life is what is important.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.