Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision.

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.

So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.

I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate anybody who has asked me for an autograph, or has complimented me as a fighter. When I go to the Hall of Fame events, I'm always well received and respected.

She lit wildfires inside my soul and fanned them with hurricanes.

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.