"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm"

"To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction"

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible"