Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad’s SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window.” The memory brought a smile to my face.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Close your eyes and you will see.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.