The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless.
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.
Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.
There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. . . . I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.
I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.
I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.
I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.