“Leadership is about doing what you know is right – even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.”

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

I don’t pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.

In business, you try to solve problems.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there’s some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You’re making it too complicated.

You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.

We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.

We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.