I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.

Find yourself, and once you do never let go

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Some men become what they were born for.