“To be free to be spontaneously & creatively shallow requires depth of character & a disciplined focus.”

“Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.”

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

“Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.”

“The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.”

“Productivity requires expansiveness & spontaneity as much as structure & control.”

“The attention to details requires discipline.”

“the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.”

“At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.”